Wednesday, 2 September 2015

Doctor Who Vs. Spooks, Series 5

Series regulars Peter Firth (as Harry Pearce), Rupert Penry-Jones (Adam Carter), Raza Jaffrey (Zafar Younis), Miranda Raison (Jo Portman), and Hugh Simon (Malcolm) all returned for the fifth season of this award-winning BBC spy drama, which was first broadcast in the autumn of 2006.This ten-part series saw the introduction of Hermione Norris, as MI6 officer Ros Myers, and the departure of Rory MacGregor and Nicola Walker, as Section D analysts, Colin Wells and Ruth Evershed. Norris played Captain Lundvik in Kill the Moon.Season five of Spooks (known as MI5 in some countries) began another repeat run on the Sony TV channel last night, and featured thirty-two Doctor Who cast and crew connections:

for Raison and Walker see my other Spooks blogs

series regular Gugu Mbatha Raw (Jenny) was Martha's sister, Tish Jones (pictured) in Smith and Jones, The Lazarus Experiment, The Sound of Drums and Last of the Time Lords

Lindsay Duncan (Angela Wells) was Captain Adelaide Brooke in The Waters of Mars

Robert Glenister (Home Secretary) was Salateen in The Caves of Androzani, just his second TV role

Mark Straker (Manager) and Michael Carter (Clark) both made their TV debuts on the classic series, as a Trooper in Earthshock, and a Prisoner and UNIT Soldier in The Mind of Evil

Colin Stinton (Styles) was President Arthur Winters in The Sound of Drums

Lucian Msamati (Bufong) was Guido in The Vampires of Venice

David Fynn and Gary Milner (Policemen) were Marcellus in The Pandorica Opens and Scared Man in The Stolen Earth respectively

Davood Ghadami (Prince) was Jim in Let's Kill Hitler

Shaun Dingwall (Paynton) was Rose's dad, Pete Tyler in Father's Day, and returned as a parallel version of Pete for Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel and Doomsday

Pip Torrens (Lee) was Headmaster Rocastle in Human Nature and The Family of Blood

Alec Newman (Dempsey) and Michael Maloney (Russell) both starred in Blue Forgotten Planet for Big Finish (2009), as Ed Driscoll and the Viryans respectively - the latter also voiced Simonsson for Grand Theft Cosmos (2008), Fratalin for Patient Zero, Farrow forHornet's Nest: The Circus of Doom (both 2009), Rennol for Kiss of Death (2011), Hilary for Destiny of the Doctor: Enemy Aliens (2013), and Gregor Saraton for Zygon Hunt (2014)